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The Knife, Alt-J, James Blake and more than 60 other acts at the Melt! 2013

| On 27, Feb 2013

Melt Festival 2012 - Sonntag

The Knife, Alt-J, James Blake and more than 60 other acts at the Melt! 2013

For Melt! Festival 2013, which by the 19th to 21 July held on the peninsula near Ferropolis Gräfenhainichen will be announced at the first confirmation wave over 60 acts from many genres.

Almost seven years have passed since the Swedish electronic duo The KnifeSilent Shout published, now they arewith the new album Shaking The Habitual back and at the Melt! 2013 exclusively. After their sold-out European tour in a few hours in the spring they will be playing their only festival appearance in Germany in Ferropolis.

With their debut album An Awesome Wave on which they meld dubstep, hip hop and folk, could Alt-J collect the prestigious Mercury Prize. The accompanying live performance follows the summer in Ferropolis. With his back screwed post-dubstep arrangements is also James Blake in terms of innovative Genre Clash also not behind. At Melt! He will present his second album live. Moreover, the New York rapper is Azealia Banks perform their only show in Germany Ferropolis. Other premieres at home Melt: nextSolomun , currently one of the world’s most sought after DJs will alsoFlying Lotus occur for the first time in Ferropolis.

For the fourth time be Modeselektor the Melt! selector Stage curate. As a special highlight will Modeselektor with a DJ set with apparatus provide initial impressions of the new album Moderat. Also represented on the stage at Melt beach: Mount Kimbie , Blawan and Pariah new live projectKarenn, Jimmy Edgar and Machinedrum live under the name Jets, Ben UFO, Otto Von Schirach, Fantastic Mr Fox, Bambounou, Sinkane, Mykki Blanco andZebra Katz . More acts will be announced shortly.

Among the first indie acts include Woodkid, Kettcar, Django Django, Owen Pallett (formerly Final Fantasy) , Everything Everything and Daughter.

Also this year, Melt! Residents meet again on new discoveries: In addition to promising newcomers of the year as Chvrches, Disclosure, King Krule orLaing is DJ Koze with a new solo album to be represented, SBTRKT goes this time behind the turntables, Henrik Schwarz & band are also in the line-up represented as Todd Terje and Lindstrøm . The pseudonym Black man hides meantime the new live project from Henrik Schwarz and Âme.

The Berlin-based electro label Get Physical will be represented by a label-special and the following artists on the Sleepless Floor: MANDY, fickleness, Catz ‘N Dogz, Andhim and Smash TV (live). course, there also Ellen Allienwith their traditional Bpitch Special missing not with which they herald the final hours on the floor nonstop. All occurring acts will be announced shortly. Crosstown Rebels with label boss Damian Lazarus, Art Departmentand Ibiza Size Jamie Jones and other special guests will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the label with a “Rebel Rave”.